French Milk
Lucy Knisley, . . Touchstone, $15 (193pp) ISBN 978-1-4165-7534-4
For her 22nd birthday—and her mother's 50th—Lucy Knisley and her mother went to Paris. For more than a month, they toured the City of Lights from their fifth arrondissement flat, exploring museums and cafes, taking photographs, eating pastries and drinking French milk, which Knisley says is sweeter than its American counterpart; she compares it with the “influence we take in from our mothers.” Knisley's first book is unquestionably a travel journal first and foremost: Lucy-the-writer is so close to Lucy-the-subject that at times the story lacks background and emotional complexity. But as a travel journal
Reviewed on: 09/22/2008
Genre: Fiction
Paperback - 188 pages - 978-0-9789427-5-5
Portable Document Format (PDF) - 192 pages - 978-1-4165-8824-5